Sharing 'quickly' my further down the rabbit hole findings here. While you can't see the full panoramic or QTVR shots, you can see the thumbnails that were created using a QT200 by a David Mantripp back in 1997. He sold it shortly after to get a CS900? as he was definitely fully involved with the VR photography and I'm guessing wanted higher resolution though I couldn't find any reference to a CS900 outside of what looks like a security camera.
Unfortunately I couldn't find a single trace to any of the other 16 or so people who participated in the Wrinkle of Time Globe QTVR photo shoots, all using either a QT150 or 200 and various Kaidan QuickPan setups. Kind of crazy and sad how so much is lost in such a short period of time due to rapid changing and dying software technologies and personal sites lasting only a few short years in the early age of the Internet.
A teacher (Angie Taylor) from a school in 1997 using her QuickTake 200 to take pictures of the band students, site lost in time:
I wonder how many of the photos taken with a QuickTake might have ended up in a yearbook during that time period, if any...
The
Wrinkle in Time (crated by Robert Abbett in Hawaii) - Panoramic/QTVR photo shoot was only done in 1997 and 1998, both years had over 100 participants from various parts of the world and using different cameras and setups of all kinds. It's just too bad that they were all done in a format that never took off beyond the initial years making them almost impossible to find in standard JPG format.
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What is A Wrinkle in Time?
More than 100 of the world's best Quicktime VR photographers and producers set up tripods and cameras at different locations around the globe. We were excited because we wanted some way to share the joy, passion and thrill of an incredible new technology. We wanted to do something together, en masse, as global brothers and sisters.
The idea was to share synchronized moments in time with each other and with you. The first time we did this was just as the clock struck 9 a.m. Hawai`i Standard Time on December 21st, 1997, and all of our particpants simultaneously shot 360 degree panoramas as a record of the time and that moment.
We began with our first Global Synchronous Shoot, based on 12 noon 3/20/98 Hawaii Standard Time. Many of our "panographers" also recorded the moment on audio tape and as you view their offerings from this first shoot, turn up your speakers to enjoy additional ambient location sound."
I
propose the idea of maybe creating a
Wrinkle in Time '21 - oddly the day of the Winter solstice yet 24 years after the original event Rabbett created. Maybe broaden it a little more to the remainder of the year for 2021 instead of a specific time/place so that those who can contribute aren't constrainted to time limitations as such.
A wrinkle is a wrinkle, spread across a two month period just as well, no? Doesn't have to be limited to QuickTakes either but that's what I would be using!
@MindWalker you on board with creating some more at some point? Anyone else on board with wrinkling panoramic time just for fun?